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Partial inventory: Best known Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá

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Alvah-i-Visaya (Will and Testament), Persian, 5820 words, dated "Early period"   • authorized transl. available AB00001
Lawh-i-'Ammih (Tablet to the Aunt), Arabic and Persian (mixed), 2740 words, dated "Early period" AB00025

Tablet written by 'Abdu'l-Bahá to His unfaithful aunt Shah Sultan Khanum, after the ascension of Bahá'u'lláh.
Lawh-i-Aflakiyyih (Tablet of the Celestial Spheres), Arabic, 3020 words, dated "Early period" AB00023

Treatise highlighting the intimate connection between physical and spiritual realities and laws. Opens with an exordium on the names and attributes of God, which move

Lawh-i-Du-Niday-i-Falah va Najah (Two Calls to Success and Prosperity), Arabic and Persian (mixed), 3040 words, dated "Early period"   • authorized transl. available AB00022
Lawh-i-Haft Sham' (Seven Candles), Persian, 930 words, dated "Early period"   • authorized transl. available AB00143
Lawh-i-Hizar Bayti (Tablet of the Thousand Verses), Arabic and Persian (mixed), 10300 words, dated "Early period" AB00005
Lawh-i-Hizar Bayti II (Second Tablet of the Thousand Verses), Arabic and Persian (mixed), 6520 words, dated "Early period" AB00008
Lawh-i-Shuhaday-i-Yazd va Isfahan (Tablet on the Martyrs of Yazd and Isfahan), Arabic and Persian (mixed), 5290 words, dated "Early period" AB00010
Madaniyyih (The Secret of Divine Civilization), Persian, 20800 words, dated "Early period"   • authorized transl. available AB00004

Treatise addressed anonymously to the entire Persian nation, outlining both the secular and the religious bases of true civilization. Identified by Shoghi Effendi as Abdu'l-Baha's

Maqaliy-i-Shakhs Sayyah (A Traveller's Narrative), Persian, 22000 words, dated "Early period" AB00003
Siyasiyyih (The Art of Divine Polity - Treatise on Politics), Persian, 5110 words, dated "Early period" AB00011
Some Answered Questions #001 Nature is Governed by a Universal Law, Persian, 390 words, dated "Early period"   • authorized transl. available AB01029

The first of 84 chapters of the book "Some Answered Questions", a compilation of table talks of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, collected by Laura Clifford Barney.
Tafsir-i-Kuntu Kanzan Makhfiyyan (Commentary on the Hadith of the Hidden Treasure), Arabic and Persian (mixed), 8270 words, dated "Early period" AB00006

Makatib v.2 p.55 mentions that this was written in Edirne; see also BMT.178. For brief commentary by Baha'u'llah see BH04769.

no title, Persian, 130 words, dated "Journeys to the West (1911-1913)" AB06441

First chapter of the book "'Abdu'l-Bahá in London".
Address to the Baha'is at Kinney home in New York, 1912-04-11, 320 words, dated "Journeys to the West (1911-1913)" ABU0970

First chapter of the book "The Promulgation of Universal Peace", a collection of 140 talks given during ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's 1912 visit to the United States and Canada.
The Duty of Kindness and Sympathy towards Strangers and Foreigners: Words spoken on 1911-10-16 in Paris, 450 words, dated "Journeys to the West (1911-1913)" ABU0653

First chapter of the book "Paris Talks", a collection of 59 talks given during ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's visit toParis in 1911 and 1912.
Lawh-i-'Ahd va Mithaq (Last Tablet to America), Arabic and Persian (mixed), 2840 words, dated "Late period" AB00024
Lawh-i-Dr Forel (Tablet to Dr Forel), Persian, 3770 words, dated "Late period"   • authorized transl. available AB00020
Lawh-i-Lahih (Tablet to the Hague), Arabic and Persian (mixed), 4540 words, dated "Late period"   • authorized transl. available AB00016
Tablet of the Divine Plan (Northeastern states I), Arabic and Persian (mixed), 400 words, dated "Late period"   • authorized transl. available AB00956
Tadhkiratu'l-Vafa (Memorials of the Faithful), Persian, 42100 words, dated "Late period"   • authorized transl. available AB00002
Lawh-i-Ayat (Tablet of the Signs), Arabic, 590 words, undated   • authorized transl. available AB00444
Lawh-i-Khurasan, Arabic, 720 words, undated AB00265
Lawh-i-Mahfil-i-Shawr?, Arabic and Persian (mixed), 610 words, undated AB00394
Lawh-i-Mahfil-i-Shawr?, Arabic and Persian (mixed), 310 words, undated   • authorized transl. available AB01545
Lawh-i-Tanzih va Taqdis (=Lawh-i-Dukhan), Arabic and Persian (mixed), 1040 words, undated   • authorized transl. available AB00109
Lawh-i-Tarbiyyat (Tablet of Education), Arabic and Persian (mixed), 930 words, undated AB00142
Sharh-i-Fass-i-Nigin (on the Ringstone Symbol), Arabic and Persian (mixed), 660 words, undated AB00328
Tafsir-i-Bismillah, Arabic, 4760 words, undated AB00013

Date of publication mentioned in TZH6.282 and BMT.012-013.

Ziyarat-Namih (Tablet of Visitation), Arabic and Persian (mixed), 210 words, undated   • authorized transl. available AB03082

Chanted by A. Nakhjavani [http://blog.loomofreality.org/?attachment_id=106], who related to the compiler in 1995 that, to the best of his recollection from childhood, this is how Shoghi Effendi would chant the Tablet in the Shrines.
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